Third Space Podcast

In a beautiful springtime walkabout podcast, Bennett very cruelly grills Daniel in what is perhaps his weakest area, geography, in a long-awaited Daniel Does Science. Afterwards, we discuss whether it is ever useful for people to delude themselves, and if such a thing is even possible.

Up to this point, we've studiously avoided talking much about covid, but Daniel recently got a vaccine, which spurs much covid-related discussion on risk, reaction, and reflection. We also laugh at a weird guy playing strange music on a bow, and we introduce a new segment called Adventures in Etymology that starts off in the classiest way: poop words.

This or That makes its triumphant return, which spurs discussions about desserty delicacies, methods of death, and the offensiveness of drag. We also examine the "word gap," a proposed reason for differences in achievement of kids of different classes. Mixed in, there's some talk about entertainment, technology, the hero's journey, and more.

This episode is dominated by an intricate and outlandish Mind Your Morals involving genies and Christmas gifts. Is Daniel strong enough to resist the genie's temptations and threats? Are you? There's also some talk about minimalism and multivitamins, in case you're into that.

Why don't people return the shopping cart? Why are striped shirts usually horizontal? How important are eyebrows? Why are our pets fat? All of this and more is discussed in this episode, along with a level 6 (!) Superpowers and Drawbacks and a discussion on the anthropomorphization of pets.

In this episode, we cover a lot of ground, beginning with the educational system and its failings, as well as what a large-scale apprenticeship replacement might look like. The we introduce a new segment: This or That! It spawns multiple mini-topics. And lastly, we discuss the concept of intrinsic identity by basically psychoanalyzing Daniel.

This is a bizarre episode for reasons I explain at the start of the podcast, but at least it ended up releasable. We cover a range of topics from spam calls to wrinkle cream to horror movies and egg terrorism. Then we discuss a level 3 Superpowers and Drawbacks before diving into the topic of voting, not related to the 2020 election, but instead to how we might create a new voting system and what obstacles it would face.

Bennett creates a sport everyone -- literally everyone -- can enjoy in Bennett Fixes Sports, Daniel and Bennett discuss the benefits of skepticism, and then Bennett has an affair while Daniel defeats a Sith Lord (at least in an AI-generated story). We also have our most awkward ending yet, thanks to TECHNOLOGY.

Bennett experiments with a walkabout podcast while Daniel is chained to his desk, poetic remembrances of noble appliances are had, and we examine and complain about the ever-present, annoying world of advertising. 

Kids whacking things with baseball bats! Unattentive drivers wrecking Bennett's car! (Im)moral situations of zapping phones in Mind Your Morals! This onomatopoeic episode covers it all, along with some discussion on the effects of social media in general.